290 authors,
one library.
Every writer we publish, with a short account of the life behind the work. 579 volumes between them, each newly set in modern English and illustrated.
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9Rabindranath Tagore
1861–1941Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali poet, novelist, composer and painter, and in 1913 the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1 volume
Booth Tarkington
1869–1946Booth Tarkington was an American novelist from Indianapolis and one of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction twice, for The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams.
1 volume
William Makepeace Thackeray
1811–1863William Makepeace Thackeray was an English novelist born in Calcutta, sent home to school at five, and left an orphan's fortune that he lost at cards and in failed newspapers before he was t
4 volumes
André Theuriet
1833–1907André Theuriet spent his boyhood in the forests of Lorraine and never really left them: his novels and verse return again and again to woodcutters, foresters and village girls, written with
1 volume
Daniel P. Thompson
1795–1868Daniel P. Thompson was an American lawyer, judge and novelist from Vermont who collected the oral testimony of Green Mountain Boys veterans while they were still alive, and turned it into fi
1 volume
Leo Tolstoy
1828–1910Leo Tolstoy was a Russian novelist, born a count on the estate where he spent most of his life.
4 volumes
Richard Chenevix Trench
1807–1886Richard Chenevix Trench was an Irish-born churchman and philologist who rose to be Archbishop of Dublin.
1 volume
Anthony Trollope
1815–1882Anthony Trollope was an English novelist who wrote before breakfast for three hours a day, by his watch, at 250 words a quarter-hour, and produced forty-seven novels without ever giving up h
4 volumes
Ivan Turgenev
1818–1883Ivan Turgenev was a Russian novelist and the first to win a wide European readership, admired by Flaubert and Henry James alike.
2 volumes